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Support for the Elvis InDesign client version 3.3.0. This adds the following functionality:

Re-linking placed images with (other) images in Elvis

When working on a layout on which images are placed that are stored in Elvis, a scenario may exist where the link between the images on the layout and those in Elvis need to be restored or recreated.

Examples:

The user opens the layout without being logged in to Elvis. At some later stage the user logs in to Elvis. However, this does not re-establish the link between the images on the layout and those in Elvis.

A layout is stored in Elvis on which images are placed that are also stored in Elvis. The layout and images are all stored in a folder. When copying the folder and its content, the links in the copied layout refer to the images in the original folder. The user wants to relink these images to those in the copied folder.

A layout contains images that are stored locally. The same images with the same name also exist in Elvis. The user wants to relink the images to those in Elvis.

Images can now be re-linked individually or all at the same time by making use of the following options:

In previous versions of the Elvis InDesign client, Elvis images for which a newer version existed than the one placed on the layout were automatically updated when the layout was opened or when the user chose Elvis > Update All. However, the user had no control over the process and last-minute changes to images were difficult to spot when working on the layout.

From Elvis InDesign client version 3.3, a message is now shown informing the user that updates are available. The user is now also given the option to not update the images:

"This document contains links to sources that have been modified. You can update the modified links now, or update them later using the Links panel."

When clicking 'Don't update links', the linked images will not be updated. However, the updated images will be downloaded in the background from Elvis to the local system. This makes them readily available should the user choose to later update the links manually by using the options in the Links panel.

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New features

No new features have been implemented in Elvis Server 4.6.25.

Changes

The following changes have been made for Elvis Server 4.6.25:

Change of background color for TIFF files containing transparency. TIFF files containing transparency may previously have been processed with a black background instead of the expected white background. As of Elvis 4.6.25, newly imported files will have a white background.

Share Link expiry date modified. The message indicating when a Share Link will expire has been modified to only show the date. In previous versions, the number of days or months was also indicated, but this turned out to sometimes be inaccurate.

Documentation

No documentation changes have been made for the release of Elvis Server 4.6.25.

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Changes

The following changes have been implemented for Elvis Server 4.6.24:

Save as New: prevent overwriting of file specific metadata when copying values form the original asset

When an asset was opened for editing, replaced by another asset and saved as a new asset, the new asset inherited specific metadata properties from the original asset, even when the values of the replaced asset were different.

The Save as New feature is now limited to saving only functional metadata from the original asset while other file information will be re-extracted from the saved asset.

When using the 'Download Image As' feature and downloading an image as a percentage of the original by setting the slider, the displayed value for that slider would automatically show '.00' behind the input value.

For several locale settings this would result in an error message stating that the input value is wrong because a different number of decimals was expected for that locale.

This has been fixed by not automatically adding '.00' whenever the slider is moved.

Documentation

No documentation changes have been made for the release of Elvis Server 4.6.24.

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New features

No new features have been implemented in Elvis Server 4.6.21.

Changes

The following changes have been made for Elvis Server 4.6.21:

Improved spreading of processing load

To prevent one Processing node from doing all the work when processing load is low, processing tasks are now divided more evenly cross all nodes that are connected to the main server (depending on available capacity).

URL configuration in .elvislink files added

A configuration property named 'elvisLinkUrl' has been added to the config.properties.txt file. It can be used for overriding the server URL shown in the generated elvislink file for opening Shared links in the Desktop client.

Possible values:

Leave empty to determine the URL automatically based on the request:

elvisLinkUrl=

Set to a customized URL:

elvisLinkUrl=https://myelvisserver.com/

Match it to the externalServerUrl setting:

elvisLinkUrl=${externalServerUrl}

Documentation

No documentation changes have been made for the release of Elvis Server 4.6.21.

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Changes

Elvis InDesign client, export to PDF: when a local image exists with same name as one or more images in Elvis, the user is asked which one to use

When a local image is placed on a layout and that image has the same name as an image that is stored in Elvis, the user is now asked which of these images to use when exporting the layout to PDF. In previous versions, this message only appeared when multiple images with the same name existed in Elvis.

Documentation

The following documentation accompanies the release of Elvis Server 4.6.19:

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Support for specifying metadata fields to return in the Create and Update REST API

By default the 'create' and 'update' API calls return all extracted and provided metadata stored in the index.

A new parameter named 'metadataToReturn' has now been added with which specific fields that need to be returned can be specified. The behavior is similar to the metadataToReturn property in a Search request.

Elvis Server 4.6.16

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New features

The following new features have been introduced in Elvis Server 4.6.16:

InDesign client plug-in 2.3.0: changing the format of a placed file

When an Elvis file that is placed on a layout is opened for editing from within InDesign and subsequently saved to another file format, the placed file can now be replaced by the file in the new format.

When an InDesign user works on a layout on which files are placed that are stored in Elvis, the content of these placed files can be changed by other users. Such changes are not automatically detected but can be manually updated by choosing Elvis > Update All Content.

Several stability improvements and bug fixes have been made for working with EPS files:

Resolved an issue where InDesign crashes when placing an EPS file

Resolved an issue where drag-and-drop on Windows did not work correctly

Changes

The following changes have been implemented in Elvis Server 4.6.16:

Single slash as file name separator in download URLs

Certain firewalls or proxy servers would change four slashes in the download URL to a single slash. To prevent this behavior, the file name separator in the URLs for the original file, preview file and thumbnail has been changed from //// to /*/.

This affect URLs returned from the server, existing URLs will keep working.